- FIND AI tools and services
- Know how to search for them
- Create a list of top sources of information for AI of various kinds
- Know how to receive updates from those sources
- Keep a log of tools/services you want to evaluate
- EVALUATE AI tools and services
- Learn the necessary resources needed to sign-up to, use and evaluate AI tools
- Know how to calculate the cost and subsequent ROI of each tool you want to use
- Beware of vendor lock-ins, proprietary standards or terms of use that could reduce your ability to change to another technology in the future
- Define your own particular criteria for tools to be aligned with the current set of AI technology you have in use
- USE AI tools and services
- Develop a personal “ramping up” method to put you up to speed with the tools and services you are beginning to use
- Document, collect evidence, of the outcomes from the newly adopted tools and services. Confront the information with your findings from the Evaluation work (competence 2 above)
- Define an “exit plan” should usage conditions change overnight (e.g. plan price climbing from 20 to 200)